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RegLab’s partnership with San Diego to use computer vision to improve road maintenance and resource allocation is discussed by the Bloomberg Cities Network.
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Stanford Report features RegLab’s work developing the Statutory Research Assistant (STARA) and an AI tool to identify racially restricted covenants.
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RegLab Policy Fellow Jennifer Pahlka highlights STARA in making the case for leveraging AI to improve governance.
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A policy brief that assesses the benefits of and provides policy recommendations for adverse event reporting systems for AI.
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A policy brief introducing STARA, a novel AI tool that performs statutory surveys to help governments—such as the San Francisco City Attorney Office—identify policy sludge and accelerate legal reform.
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Dan Ho and other members of the RegLab team contributed to the report produced by the Joint California Policy Working Group on AI Frontier Models, which offers a policy framework for responsible, ethical, and safe use of AI.
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City Attorney David Chiu is working with RegLab to identify and delete old, redundant municipal code sections.
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A benchmark featuring 25 systems with complex, real-world codebases, and 40 bug bounties that cover 9 of the OWASP Top 10 Risks.
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Congratulations to the Cybench team, who won first prize in the Center for AI Safety’s SafeBench competition!
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Rebecca Lester discusses RegLab’s collaboration with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to apply cutting-edge techniques to efforts to close the gap between taxes owed and received.
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Current generative AI models struggle to recognize when demographic distinctions matter—leading to inaccurate, misleading, and sometimes harmful outcomes.
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A new RegLab white paper assesses federal efforts to advance leadership on AI innovation and governance through recent executive actions and emphasizes the need for senior-level leadership to achieve a whole-of-government approach.
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Dan Ho offers behind the scenes insight into the AI bootcamp for California officials that RegLab co-hosted.
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Congratulations to Dr. Thomas Hertz, a Senior Economist at the IRS and RegLab collaborator! Bestowed annually by the Office of Management and Budget, the award recognizes “evaluation mavericks who think up creative and outside-the-box evaluation ideas, help design them, and see them through to execution.”
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The United States needs adaptable and responsive government institutions to effectively tackle the complex challenges facing the country both domestically and internationally.
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In collaboration with Santa Clara County, RegLab led the development and application of an AI model that provides an efficient and effective means of complying with California's Anti-Discrimination Law
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Dan Ho co-authored a new article published in Science that analyzes the impact of different policy proposals related to regulating open foundation models.
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Congratulations to Professor Goldin for recognition of his outstanding early-career impacts on the field of law and economics by the University of Chicago!
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A new RegLab study evaluates the performance of two popular AI-powered legal tools and finds they still hallucinate at alarming rates – underscoring the need for benchmarking and public evaluations of AI tools in law.
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RegLab Executive Director, Christine Tsang, and our research partner, Dr. Sara Cody, Santa Clara County Health Officer, provided expert testimony to the Senate Labor, Public Employment and Retirement Committee on Senate Bill 1070, aimed at enabling talent exchanges into state and local government.
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Congrats to Emily Black and to Arushi Gupta, Victor Wu, Jen King, Helen Webley-Brown and Dan Ho for their awards from the Future of Privacy Forum!
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In a Washington Post op-ed, RegLab’s Dan Ho and Anne Joseph O’Connell recommend that the federal government should leverage the Intergovernmental Personnel Act to enable talent exchange and address its workforce crisis.
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The rapid adoption of LLM-based legal tools has the potential to transform the practice of law, but these tools carry risks that need to be appropriately understood. In a new RegLab study, we test three popular tools and show that hallucinations are pervasive.
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Arushi Gupta, Victor Y. Wu and Helen Webley-Brown won a Best Paper award at the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT). Co-supervised by Jen King and Dan Ho, the paper examines the privacy-bias tradeoff that has bedeviled U.S. federal agencies.